Barack Obama may avoid Sikh temple on Asia visit over fears of being branded a Muslim | The Australian Comments Off
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October 20, 2010 by
Sharon K. Gilbert
(THE AUSTRALIAN) — A VISIT by Barack Obama to the holiest of Sikh shrines may be cancelled because his advisers do not want the US President to wear a headscarf – fearing that it could fuel false rumours that he is a secret Muslim.
Everyone who enters the Golden Temple in the northern Indian city of Amritsar must cover their head, and the US President’s advisers fear it could fuel false rumours that he is a secret Muslim.
